Steps for Employing Time-Dependent Address Usage 

Use

With the Treasury Business Partner you could use addresses and the address IDs assigned to them on a time-dependent basis. Time-dependent address usage was not available for customers with Release Banking 4.62/CFM 1.0. A solution for time-dependent address usage was developed for the SAP Business Partner for Financial Services for Release Banking 4.63/CFM 2.0.

Time-dependency enables you to restrict the validity of individual address usages to a specific time period. This restriction enables you to assign individual addresses to an exact time period, and to evaluate their customer data more precisely.

For example, your business partner Optima GmbH has several foreign plants. The managing director of the company therefore spends several months during the fiscal year at these plants. With time-dependent address usage, you can adjust the validity of the correspondence addresses for the managing director to match the time spent abroad in various locations.

Before you can begin to utilize time-dependent address usage, you will need to run certain report programs. There are various possibilities, depending on how you used the business partner in the past:

Case 1: You install Release Banking 4.63/CFM 2.0

Address usages for the Treasury Business Partner are transferred to the corresponding address usages for the SAP Business Partner in the context of conversion phase I (report RFTBUP01).

Case 2: You have Release 46C or lower and are using the SAP Business Partner
Execute report RFSBP21FS in order to transfer their address usages to time-dependent usage.

Case 3: You already used the SAP Business Partner with Release Banking 4.62/CFM 1.0

Execute report RFTBP030 in order to transfer the address types to time-dependent usage.

After running each report, you can see the results of the data transfer in a log. The log contains details of the imported data, errors, and also the data statistics. To see the log, choose the option Show Log Details when you start the report.

To regularly update the setting for the default address ID (table BUT020) and the entries in table BUT021 (several banking applications still access this table instead of BUT021_FS), you should create a job to start report RFSBPBUT021 on a daily basis.

If you do not use banking applications, you do not need to regularly update table BUT021. In this case, create a job that starts report RFSBPBUT020 on a daily basis. This only updates the default indicator in table BUT020.

Features

Report RFTBP030

Report RFTBP030 transfers the time-dependent data from table BP030 to table BUT021_FS. The following fields are affected when you run the report:

·         PARTNR: Business partner number

·         ADR_REF_K: Address type

·         ADR_DAT: Start of address validity

·         ADDRNUMBER: Number of the address

·         ADR_D_E: End of address validity

As part of the data transfer, the start and end of the address validity are used to create a validity time period in time-stamp format, that is to say, with unique time indication (date and time zones are taken into account).

Report RFSBP21FS

Report RFSBP21FS transfers the address usage data for table BUT021 to table BUT021_FS, and assigns the validity period to them.

Report RFSBPBUT020

Report RFSBPBUT020 checks whether the day has arrived on which the default address is due to change. It checks table BUT021_FS to determine whether the date of the data records with the literal XXDEFAULT (default address) in the address type field lies between the start of the validity period for the business partner address relationship and the end of the validity period for the business partner address relationship. If this is the case, then the default address usage indicator is set for this address in table BUT020. The indicator for the previous default address is removed.

Report RFSBPBUT021

Report RFSBPBUT021 transfers the valid address usages to the table BUT021. The former address usages are deleted so that there is a maximum of one address for each address ID. This is necessary, as several banking applications still access the function modules for the central business partner, which use this table. At the same time, the same logic contained in report RFSBPBUT020 is used to update the default indicator in table BUT020.

Prerequisites

You have run the conversion report for phase I and the code conversion report for phase II successfully.

Activities

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       1.      If you have already used the SAP Business Partner in Release Banking 4.62/CFM 1.0, enter transaction SE38 to execute report RFTBP030.

       2.      Enter transaction SE38 to execute report RFSBP21FS.

       3.      Plan a job that will run report RFSBPBUT021 every night after 00:00.

Result

You have made the necessary settings in order to utilize time-dependent address usage.